Reached by phone Sunday morning, Del. Jill P. Carter, who MacArthur said would act as his lawyer, said she was still figuring out the details of the case and was not officially engaged as the blogger's attorney.

I imagine what she said was "I don't want to represent this moron, Hon."

Wasting the police's time while attention whoring on the internet, what an absolute douchebag.

Are you assuming he would have walked out five hours earlier if he didn't have a computer? Attention in-person wasn't going to do it for him?

That's probably a safe assumption from reading even just the first two paragraphs of the article:

FTA:A Baltimore blogger wanted on a court-issued warrant refused to come out of his home for hours, broadcasting his discussion with a police negotiator live on the Internet before turning himself in peacefully.

Frank James MacArthur, 47, was taken into custody outside his home in the 600 block of McKewin Ave. at about 11 p.m. - timed, he said, for local news stations - after a standoff lasting more than five hours and which involved the department's SWAT team.

According to that and more in the article it appears that he was just playing a game using the internet and the police to make sure he'd get the local news baited into giving him some attention.

It's going to be a while before he appreciates the traffic, unless he spent all that time planning how to get released the same day.

(Which, I should add, worked out pretty well for me in my 2003 criminal case when Farkers were posting "You can't negotiate with the FBI!" when I called into TechTV as feds looked for me. They had a point. I negotiated with the US Attorneys' office instead. Much better idea. Protip appreciated.)

So yeah. A little planning and a kind word can go a long way, would-be future fugitives of Fark.

/a strange (fugitive) game//the only way to win is not to play///end threadjack

So.... isn't anyone going to point out that maybe bringing in the police helicopter and a swat team might have been a little too much? or are you guys just gonna busy yourself with pointing out 'how terrible his blog is' without showing that you can do better?

Wasting the police's time while attention whoring on the internet, what an absolute douchebag.

Are you assuming he would have walked out five hours earlier if he didn't have a computer? Attention in-person wasn't going to do it for him?

/not saying he isn't a db

Yes. He would have walked out sooner if he didn't have a platform. I saw some of those tweets in my feed -- they looked just like the long rambling letters inmates send to reporters after they've been convicted.